"They will stretch your thinking, stir your soul, and maybe even offer some startling insights on what to cook for dinner tonight. We created this list out of thousands of recommendations from authors, activists, professors, book club members, spiritual teachers, and bemused observers of the human condition. It’s offered not as a checklist to measure your intellectual standing, but as an inspiration, to give you an incentive to pursue your own blissful course of study. "The real value of self-learning is that it connects you with a whole web of knowledge, each new discovery moving you in the direction of further insights. That’s why every one of the main selections here points to another work we’ve listed, which of course will lead you to more and more. Please let us know where this list takes you, and what else you would include."
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Isaiah
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Zohar (5 Volume set)
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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)
by Stephen Mitchell
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The Book of Chuang Tzu (Penguin Classics)
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
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Works and Days
by Hesiod
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Mahabharata
by William Buck
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I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta
by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Marcus Aurelius
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The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics)
by Apuleius
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Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Mother Columba Hart
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The Gnostic Gospels: A Startling Account of the Meaning of Jesus and the Origin of Christianity Based on Gnostic Gospels and Other Secret Texts
by Elaine Pagels
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Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz: Selected Odes (Element Classics of World Spirituality)
by Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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Muslim Women Mystics
by Margaret Smith
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Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
by Francois Rabelais
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Monkey/Folk Novel of China
by Ch'Eng-En Wu
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Coriolanus (Signet Classics)
by William Shakespeare
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Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
by Akira Kurosawa
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Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6
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Arvo Part: Te Deum / Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
by Tonu Karljuste
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Samuel Johnson: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler.
by Samuel. Johnson
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The Journey's Echo: Selections from Freya Stark (Ecco Travels)
by Freya Stark
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
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Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
by Franz Grundheber
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The Book of Urizen : A Facsimile in Full Color
by William Blake
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Illuminated Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
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Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Jane Austen
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The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Murasaki Shikibu
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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Symphony No 4 (Hybr)
by Gustav Mahler
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
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New and Selected Poems: Volume One
by Mary Oliver
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Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
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A Muriel Rukeyser Reader
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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
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My Past and Thoughts
by Alexander Herzen
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The Penguin Gandhi Reader
by Mohandas K. Gandhi
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We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by Myles Horton
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Encyclopaedia Britannica 11Th Edition
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Made in America
by Bill Bryson
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In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
by Marcel Proust
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Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
by E. M. Forster
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Duino Elegies
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Selected Poems of Tu Fu
by Fu Du
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci
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Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
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Duck Soup [Chico Marx and Zeppo Marx]
by Leo McCarey
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Dr. Strangelove [Blu-ray]
by Stanley Kubrick
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The Complete Recordings
by Robert Johnson
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Message
by Grandmaster Flash
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